Macbook doesnt boot from leopard disk

My Macbook pro started to get very slow,
so i decided to do a fresh install,
firstly used the original disk and formatted the drive,
and left it to install,
but install failed,
cleaned the disk tried again and this time it displayed a kernel panic "restart",
the recovery disk is in poor condition so this could be causing the problem,
then i tried the leopard retail disk,
which has version 10.5.1,
the install kept restarting wouldnt even get to the apple logo,
now i dont have any other options,
sold my macbook air,
and the imac is at my parents,
only thing i have infront of me now is a hp touchsmart,
i got the image from the recovery disk on to the pc,
then tried transmac to burn back to a dl dvd but got a error half way through the process,
anyone have any ideas or solutions i can try out...

Worked it out,
for future reference this is what i did,
Download trial version of transmac,
install and then open the extracted .dmg image,
click expand and save,
then download ultraiso trial version,
click convert .dmg to iso,
once done i used the cyberlink package to burn onto a DL Dvd,
(you can also download imageburn which is free),
placed burnt dvd into the macbook pro and install process started straight away...
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